James Rosenquist Quotes
I hitchhiked to Miami in 1953, and there were oranges laying on the road, black shantytowns, and marinas with nice boats. The museums were virtually empty.
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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Glamour is fun! Spending time to get ready isn't about being fussy; it's about taking care of myself.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.
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My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.
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Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes.
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Indeed, no one does more injury in the church than he who acts perversely and yet has the name and order of sanctity.
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You have to do what you believe in.
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It is the asymmetry of the bonus system that got us here. No incentives without disincentives: capitalism is about rewards and punishments, not just rewards.
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A lot of times, when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.
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It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.
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I hitchhiked to Miami in 1953, and there were oranges laying on the road, black shantytowns, and marinas with nice boats. The museums were virtually empty.
